Michael continues: Jesus Christ has delivered us from the grip of sin that had separated us from the word of God, the love of God and the light of truth. Through Jesus Christ, God gave us the spirit of life in Him. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and given us spiritual life. He said, today is the acceptable year of the Lord.
The bad news is stated in Romans 3:23 and 6:23 … for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death. The good news is that the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. According to 1 John 5:13, we can know beyond the shadow of a doubt that we are saved … that we are children of God and heirs of God.
Looking at the God-rejecting world around us, there is so much deterioration, devastation, death and destruction. However, the Lord will restore the years that the locust has eaten. The power of God through His son is greater than the power of sin that has separated our hearts from God’s heart. Jesus Christ’s purpose was to declare the acceptable year of the Lord. Now is the acceptable year. Today, we can receive deliverance from the darkness of the evil one and the powers of this fallen world. The deliverance is through Jesus Christ himself ... For greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
Deliverance, salvation, and the gift of Holy Spirit are on God’s terms, not ours. To come to Jesus requires meekness and humility. To approach God’s throne of grace through His son, we must first forsake our selfish selves. To come to Christ is to renounce my self-centered lordship to confess Jesus is Lord. I’m no longer my owner… he is. For I was Crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me… and the life that I now live I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
When we walk in the light as He is in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John says, These things have I written unto you that you may have fellowship… communion, joined to God in the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. For we have been called unto fellowship one with another and truly our fellowship is with our Father God and with His Son, Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Now is the acceptable year of the Lord. God has called us to the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died, arose, ascended that our lives may all be blended, in one family rejoicing with our God that we may ever live to the praise of the glory of His grace.
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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